Celia Donert (Cambridge)

Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Colloquium "Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism"

The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, June 26th, with a lecture by Senior Fellow Celia Donert on 'From Emancipation to Empowerment? Towards a Global History of “Gender Studies” since the 1970s'.

Celia Donert is Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on Central Europe, communism and state socialism, human rights, gender, and more broadly, social histories of international order. She is the author of The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia (Cambridge, 2017) and edited volumes on women's rights as human rights, the legacies of the Romani genocide in postwar Europe, women's rights and global socialism during the Cold War, and everyday life during state socialism in East Central Europe since 1945. She is an editor of Contemporary European History and a new book series, published by Cambridge University Press, entitled European Histories of the Present.

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